My Broadsheet Article and Locus Online

My name is on the home page of Locus Online! I sold an article, "Think Outside the Coffin: Writing the Vampire Novel" to Broad Universe's online magazine, the Broadsheet. The Spring issue is now up. Locus picks up the Broadsheet in its "Blinks" column on the left side of the main page. The new listing reads:

"The Broadsheet for March has an inteview with Beth Massie, art by Jill Bauman, advice on writing a vampire novel by Inanna Arthen, and more."

I needed that!

Mortal Touch is listed in Locus

Mortal Touch is listed in the "Books Received in August" section in the current (October) issue of Locus Magazine. These listings only appear in the print version of the magazine, not online, but I'm still very pleased. It would have been nice to have gotten a review, but Locus is a trade periodical that prioritizes the big traditional publishers. A review would have been surprising. But there I am, listed in Locus, right at the beginning since the section is alphabetically by author. Everything is spelled right and they give my company name and URL. They do say that Mortal Touch is "POD" (technically true, insofar as how it is printed. When it's selling well I'll go to offset to cut my costs down enough for a distributor, and then Mortal Touch won't be "POD") and available from me. This is somewhat misleading as By Light Unseen Media's books are also available from Amazon, multiple online booksellers, and in any bookstore via wholesalers Ingram or Baker & Taylor. But anybody who follows the link in Locus will immediately learn all that.

I also discovered that if you do a Yahoo (not Google) search on "mortal touch," three of my reviews come up among the first six hits. Yahoo and Google use different algorithms for their search rankings, and I often find Yahoo's search returns to be more relevant and more useful. However, if you Google "mortal touch," you do see my latest media release. I don't know if any newspapers picked it up, but I also put my releases out on the free web newswire 1888pressrelease.com, and these get indexed by search engines quite promptly.